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Shandong Transportation
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Jinan Railway Station's magnificient appearance
Air
There are eight civil airports within Shandong province, located in Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai, Weihai, Weifang, Linqi, Dongying and Jining. Among them, Yaoqiang Airport of Jinan, Liuting Airport of Qingdao and Laishan Airport of Yantai are international airports.
Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport is located 40 kilometers northeast of downtown Jinan, linking with Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai and Yantai. The airport buses running between Shandong Aviation Mansion in Jinan and Yaoqiang Airport are available from 6:00 am to 5:00 pm everyday, with an interval of one hour between buses. The journey is about one hour and costs 15 yuan per person.
Qingdao Liuting International Airport is situated 32 kilometers away from downtown Qingdao. Its airlines connect Qingdao with over 30 major cities of mainland China as well as Hong Kong, Macau, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka, Seoul and Singapore.
Yantai Laishan International Airport is located in Laishan county, 15 kilometers south of Yantai City. There are flights to Beijing, Shanghai, Harbin, Jinan, Shenyang and Wuhan everyday. Flights traveling to Hong Kong are available every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday.
Railway
Shandong’s railway network is well-developed and connects all cities within the province.
Two major railways: the Beijing-Shanghai line and the Beijing-Kowloon line pass through Shandong from north to south, and the other two important railways: the Jiaozhou-Jinan line and the Yunzhou-Shijiazhuang line pass through it from east to west, which link Shandong with many major cities of China. More than 2,700 km of track is now in use in Shandong. The newly-built Beijing-Kowloon Railway has connects Shandong directly with Hong Kong.
Rizhao, a port city in southeastern Shandong, which is the stop at the easternmost end of the Yunzhou-Shijiazhuang line, has been approved by the state to be one of the terminuses of the New Eurasia Continental Bridge. Special tourist lines leading to Hong Kong, Yellow Mountain and Zhangjiajie are available during high season.
The Beijing-Kowloon Line
It begins from Beijing in the north and ends at Kowloon, Hong Kong, passing through Linqing, Liaocheng, Yanggu, Liangshan, Yingcheng, Heze, Dingtao and Caoxian within Shandong. It crosses the Handan-Jinan line at Liaocheng, and meets the Xinxiang-Yanshi line in Heze.
The Beijing-Shanghai Line
It begins from Beijing in the north and ends at Shanghai in the south. It passes by some cities and counties within Shandong province such as Dezhou, Pingyuan, Yucheng, Qihe, Jinan, Tai'an, Qufu, among which Jinan is the largest stop. All passenger trains on the Beijing-Shanghai railway stop at Jinan station. It takes only five hours for an express trains to reach Beijing from Jinan, and nine hours from Jinan to Shanghai.
Highway
Shandong possesses a high-grade transportation system, especially its advanced and convenient network of highways which extend in all directions. Shandong ranks number one for highway transportation in China. It is famous throughout China for the length and quality of its highways. So far, all 17 cities and prefectures of Shandong except Binzhou are connected by highways, and the total length of highways had reached 2,006 km. The Beijing-Shanghai highway passes through Dezhou, Jinan, Tai'an, and Linyi. The Jinan-Qingdao Expressway traverses the Shandong Peninsula, joining Jinan, Zibo, Weifang and Qingdao, and forms the central ‘T’ of Shanndong’s highway network along with the Beijing-Shanghai highway.
Boat
Every day, there are passenger ships bound for Dalian from Yantai, Weihai, and Penglai on the Shandong Peninsula, and there are four high speed passenger ships from Yantai to Dalian. Qingdao, Weihai, and Yantai also have regular ships to Korea and Japan.
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